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and all
of them showing grief in their movements as if
mourning over the common loss. Only a few unbelieving
Jews, more hardened than the rocks and more impious
than the wild beasts failed to show sorrow at the death
of their Restoratrix, as they had failed to do also at the
death of their Redeemer and Master.
INSTRUCTION WHICH THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, MOST HOLY
MARY, GAVE ME.
756. My daughter, in commemorating my natural
death and my burial, I wish that thou also die and be
buried to all worldly things, and this is to be the fruit
and the principal result of thy having known and written
my life. Many times in the course of thy writing have
I manifested to thee this as my desire and intimated it
to thee as my will, lest thou waste this singular favor
shown to thee by the Lord and by me. It is a foul offense
in any Christian, if, after dying to sin and after being
reborn in Christ by Baptism, knowing that the Lord
died for him, he returns again to the same faults; and
this will be a still greater wickedness in those souls, who
are called by special grace to be the most dear friends of
the Lord, as is the case with those, who for that very
purpose dedicate and consecrate themselves to his closer
service in religion, each one according to his condition
and state.
757. In these souls the vices of the world cause horror
in heaven itself, because the pride, the presumption, the
haughtiness, the want of mortification, the anger, the
covetousness, the conscious impurities and other wicked
ness in such souls force the Lord and the saints to with
draw from the sight of their monstrous distortion and
rouse them to greater wrath and offense than the same
sins in other souls. Therefore the Lord repudiates many
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